CACR Cyber Conversations (CCC) are informal discussions where we convene to discuss cybersecurity topics with diverse experts in an informal setting. We typically have a speaker/moderator that will give a short informal introduction on a topic which frames the discussion.
CCCs are typically held on Zoom every Friday from 12-1pm Eastern Time.
If you would like to attend CCCs, subscribe to our mailing list. Announcements on upcoming talks include Zoom meeting links. To subscribe, send a blank email to cyberconvo-l-subscribe@list.iu.edu
Please contact Will Drake (wildrake@iu.edu) if you have questions.
We have started recording CCCs and posting the videos on an unlisted YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLtNCShnwJddcS0T8NDE-vvIFjftQPMRaI
January 3 -- NO CCC - Winter Break - NO CCC
January 10 -- Vishal Singh Bhardvaj will moderate a discussion on "The Cuckoo's Egg," a story about tracking a spy through the maze of computer espionage.
January 17 -- Mark Krenz will give a live demo on capture the flag (CTF) tools.
January 24 -- CACR CISO, Will Drake, will lead a discussion on healthcare cybersecurity.
January 31 -- Mark Krenz will give Mark Krenz will give another live demo (2.0) on capture the flag (CTF) tools.
February 7 -- Charles Kloote from OmniSoc, “What Can DevSecOps Learn from Manufacturing?”
February 14 -- Rob Templeman from CACR, "Cyber Policy Purge??"
February 21 -- Ishan Abhinit from CACR will lead a discussion on incident response planning.
February 28 -- Tim Daniel from CACR will lead a discussion on, TBD.
March 7 -- Tanner Wilburn, CACR Student Fellow, will discuss his recent work at the US Department of Justice, "How the U.S. Prosecutes International Cybercrime"
March 14 ---- NO CCC, SPRING BREAK ----
March 21 ---- NO CCC, SPRING BREAK ----
March 28 -- NO CCC
April 4 -- Professor Matt Pratola from IU's Statistics Department will discuss, "Right of the Conditioning Bar," the importantance of statistics to cybersecurity.
April 11 -- Executive Director of both CACR and the Ostrom Workshop, Provost Professor Scott Shackelford will lead a discussion on the metaverse, motivated by his new book, "The Metaverse: What Everyone Needs to Know."
April 18 -- Cory Gleyze of CACR and Megha Moncy of OmniSOC will lead a discussion on our many paths to the cybersecurity profession, starting with their own personal accounts.
April 25 -- Lisa Dusseault from the Data Transfer Initiative, DTI, will discuss the right to data portability and the infrastructure that is that addresses the problem: a Data Trust Registry.
May 2 -- Ben Lazarine, CACR Student Fellow, will lead a discussion on "Security Challenges Facing the Current Machine Learning Open-Source Software Landscape."
May 9 -- Karen Sowen will lead a discussion titled, "Secure, usable or private? Useful tech policy."
May 16 -- Kate Naughton, CACR Student Fellow, will lead a discussion on "Microsoft Loop, their newest and most underrated product." NEED TO RESCHEDULE (TBD)
May 23 --- NO CCC, HOLIDAY ---
May 30 -- Hauke Bahr from CACR will lead a discussion on change management and how it can enhance cybersecurity documents.
June 6 -- Nick Reese, co-founder and COO of Frontier Foundry, will moderate a CCC on state of the art AI applications.
June 13 -- Ranson Ricks from CACR will lead a discussion on TBD.
SUMMER BREAK
August 15 -- Dr. Tim Kelley from the Department of Navy will lead a discussion on mental models in the interpretation of cybersecurity behavior.
August 22 -- Dr. Megha Moncy from OmniSoc, "The Illusion of Privacy." 22 participants.
August 29 ---- NO CCC, HOLIDAY ----
September 5 -- Professor Clovia Hamilton from Kelley, "Robocops to the Rescue?"
September 12 -- Mark Krenz from CACR will lead a discussion on public disclosure of vulnerabilities and the release process.
September 19 -- Mark Krenz from CACR will moderate a discussion on cybersecurity-related movies.
September 26 -- Sharlene Toney, CACR Student Fellow, will be presenting, "The Letter vs. the Spirit: FERPA, Data Brokers, and the Ethics of Policy Gaps"
October 3 -- Kelli Shute from CACR will facilitate a conversation with the 2025/26 CACR Student Fellows about their academic and professional interests, their research, and expectations for their CACR Fellowship experience.
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November 14 -- Shannon Pierson from the UC Berkeley Center for Long-Term Cybersecurity will present, "Tracking U.S. State Cybersecurity Legislation Nationwide."
November 21 -- Emily K Adams from CACR will facilitate a dual-perspective discussion "Assessors and Researchers Are People, Who Knew?!" exploring the "real life” implications of rapport and trust in cybersecurity assessments.
November 28 ---- NO CCC, HOLIDAY ----
December 5 --
December 12 -- Nicole Bennett -TBD
December 19 ---- NO CCC, WINTER BREAK ----
December 26 ---- NO CCC, WINTER BREAK ----